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作者:Liu, Cheol; Moldogaziev, Tima T.; Mikesell, John L.
作者单位:KDI School of Public Policy & Management; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要:Theories describing rent seeking in the public sector posit a number of negative fiscal outcomes that the choices of corrupt officials may generate. The evidence presented in this article shows that states with greater intensities of public corruption have higher aggregate levels of state and local debt. If corruption in the 10 most corrupt states were only at an average level, their public debt would be 9 percent lower, or about $249.35 per capita, all else being equal. Notably, institutional...
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作者:Turner, Victor T.
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作者:Craw, Michael
作者单位:University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Little Rock; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要:Sublocal governance organizations may provide a way for some urban neighborhoods to stabilize and improve property values. Recent advances in collective action theory, spatial statistical methods, and data availability now make it possible to more directly evaluate the effects of these organizations. The analysis combines geocoded assessor's data and data from a survey of neighborhood and homeowner associations to analyze a model of prices of single-family homes in Little Rock, Arkansas, from ...
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作者:Kettl, Donald F.
作者单位:University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
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作者:Lawton, Alan; Macaulay, Michael
作者单位:Federation University Australia; Victoria University Wellington
摘要:Organizations wax and wane, and some cease to exist altogether. The Standards Board for England was abolished after a 10-year life. Created to regulate the ethical behavior of local politicians in England, the ethics of politics was undermined by the politics of ethics. This article analyzes the life of the Standards Board initially through the lens of a life-cycle approach to organizations but finds that a problem-cluster approach provides a sharper picture. Over its lifetime, the Standards B...
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作者:Heidari-Robinson, Stephen
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作者:Liu, Helen K.
作者单位:University of Hong Kong
摘要:Crowdsourcing has proliferated across disciplines and professional fields. Implementers in the public sector face practical challenges, however, in the execution of crowdsourcing. This review synthesizes prior crowdsourcing research and practices from a variety of disciplines and focuses to identify lessons for meeting the practical challenges of crowdsourcing in the public sector. It identifies three distinct categories of crowdsourcing: organizations, products and services, and holistic syst...
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作者:[Anonymous]
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作者:Balfour, Danny L.
作者单位:Grand Valley State University
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作者:Culhane, Aidan